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Yerushalmi was born in Poland in 1920. A graduate of [[Tel Aviv]]'s [[Balfour College]], he studied law at the [[University of Jerusalem]] and joined [[Haganah]].<ref name="Cristol2002"/> He served as a law clerk and lawyer from March 1942 to 1947 and then joined the military where he trasnferred to the Military Advocate General and became JAG to the airforce, later to the navy.<ref name="Cristol2002"/> In 1957 he was appointed as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals, a position in which he held until launching an enquiry in the ''Liberty'' incident in 1967.<ref name="Cristol2002"/> |
Yerushalmi was born in Poland in 1920. As a teenager, he emigrated to Israel in 1935.<ref name="Scott2010">{{cite book|last=Scott|first=James|title=The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=72cI13uPqGMC&pg=PT277|accessdate=6 January 2011|date=6 July 2010|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781416554837|page=277}}</ref>A graduate of [[Tel Aviv]]'s [[Balfour College]], he studied law at the [[University of Jerusalem]] and joined [[Haganah]].<ref name="Cristol2002"/> He served as a law clerk and lawyer from March 1942 to 1947 and then joined the military where he trasnferred to the Military Advocate General and became JAG to the airforce, later to the navy.<ref name="Cristol2002"/> In 1957 he was appointed as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals, a position in which he held until launching an enquiry in the ''Liberty'' incident in 1967.<ref name="Cristol2002"/> |
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Revision as of 07:20, 6 January 2011
Lieutenant Colonel Yeshayahu Yerushalmi (Template:Lang-he), sometimes referred to as Isaiah Yerushalmi (born 1920 in Poland[1]), is a former Israeli judge. Yerushalmi was the primary author of the preliminary Israeli inquiry into the USS Liberty incident (called the Yerushalmi Report). In many subsequent accounts his name is transliterated as Y. Yerushalmi.
Biography
Yerushalmi was born in Poland in 1920. As a teenager, he emigrated to Israel in 1935.[2]A graduate of Tel Aviv's Balfour College, he studied law at the University of Jerusalem and joined Haganah.[1] He served as a law clerk and lawyer from March 1942 to 1947 and then joined the military where he trasnferred to the Military Advocate General and became JAG to the airforce, later to the navy.[1] In 1957 he was appointed as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals, a position in which he held until launching an enquiry in the Liberty incident in 1967.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Cristol, A. Jay (2002). The Liberty incident: the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S. navy spy ship. Brassey's. p. 167. ISBN 9781574885361. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ Scott, James (6 July 2010). The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship. Simon and Schuster. p. 277. ISBN 9781416554837. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
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